Tag: Nicky Henderson
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There’s always something to make you think twice
Willie Mullins recently ran a horse in a bumper owned by the Curb Your Enthusiasm Syndicate. Whether the steed won or not cannot be recalled, but is not relevant to the remainder of what you will read hereafter. Now read on… When I got into farming in my own right nearly a decade ago, one…
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Selections for Punchestown – Apr. 27th 2022
3.40: GUIRI – EW – (CHARLIE O’DWYER (4*) /JESSICA HARRINGTON) 4.15: SAM’S CHOICE (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 4.45: FILS D’OUDAIRIES (NICO DE BOINVILLE/NICKY HENDERSON **) 5.20: THE NICE GUY (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.55: MINELLA INDO – EW – (ROBBIE POWER/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 6.35: FACILE VEGA (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 7.05: ANAMIX – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)…
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CHELTENHAM 2022 – Day 2
Firstly ladies and gentlemen, my profuse apologies, due to technology being a complete pain in the backside, I am unable to bring you a video preview but I hope the below will suffice. Hopefully, also, some of ye made a few bob today on BRAZIL, 10/1, BLUE LORD (3RD, 13/2 when advised) and the incomparable…
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DriveThru Sports Show – Ep. 14 (Cheltenham Festival 2021 – Day 2)
Thankfully, things got off to a pleasantly surprisingly good start today with Appreciate It handsomely lived up to his billing as the Irish banker while Honeysuckle and Rachael Blackmore made history in the Champion Hurdle, But, not for the first time, the Meath racing fraternity made their mark on the day’s business. It was especially…
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Fairyhouse off as weather causes further havoc
Today’s meeting at Fairyhouse was called off due to the Co Meath venue being unfit for racing. Though not a surprise, it’s another setback to whatever semblance of normalcy there remains to aid one’s circumnavigation of the big ball on which we reside during these present times. More than that, however, it’s a blow to…
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Another day, more for Mullins but Henry hogs the big one
By ten past twelve today, Willie Mullins had another two winners on the board – one in both Limerick and Leopardstown. Both courtesy of horses breaking their maidens who would’ve been expected to have done so before now. One of which was the instigation of a treble for owners Joe and Marie Donnelly. The black…
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Back to the future with a winning pedigree
A retired local farm worker, long since departed to the calving pens up yonder, once told my father “Don’t let anyone ever tell you about the good old days, the good days are now”. Keeping in mind that this would’ve been in the late 1970s or early ’80s anyone who had done a decade or…